Combination spring hanger for brooms and dustpans



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COMBINATION SPRING HANGER FOR BROOMS AND DUSTPANS I July 30, 1929.

Filed Aug. 9. 1926 INVENTOR. Byfifi ATTORNEYS Patented July 30, 1929.

UNITED STATES OFFHCE. I

HENRY MERK, OF IBINGI-IAMTON, NEW YQBK; CHARLES COHEN ADMINISTRATOR DEBONIS NON OF SAID HENRY MERK, DECEASED.

COMBINATION SPRING HANGER FOR BROOMS AND DUSTIANS.

Application filed August 9, 1926. Serial No. 128,339.

My invention relates to improvements in combination spring hangers forbrooms and dust-pans, and it has for its object to provide a compacteasily workable and easily 6 constructed device of the class described.With these objects in view, my invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and arrangement of parts as may be hereinaftermore fully described and 10 pointed out in the claim, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1, is a plan view of my device.

Fig. 2, is a side elevation of my device partly in cross section.

Fig. 8, is a front elevation of my device.

Fig. 4, is -a side elevation of a modified form of my device, the samereference characters denote like parts in each of the several figures ofthe drawings.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a hanger support A and let intothe face of its outer surface, I have a channel 2 in which ishorizontally mounted a spring metal band 3, each end of which is bentoutwardly at right angles to the base form ing the outwardly extendingarms 4, 4, each arm being again bent over, forming an elbow 5, andextending inwardly toward the base plate 3, thus forming 2 spaced apartparallel spring guides 6, 6; mounted on each arm 4: at the elbow 5, Ihave the hook 7 having the shank 8 of the hook bent around the elbow 5of the arm 4-, as shown in Figs.

1, 2 and 3, the point of the hook 7 extending upward and may be in thecurved form shown in Fig. 2 and in another form I have on each arm ahook with an elongated point 9 as shown in Fig. 4; the spring base 3 hasan opening therein through which is mounted a screw 10 entering into thesupport A for fastening the spring base 3 to the hanger A. In the hangerA I have also the screw holes or openings 11, 11, for the insertion ofscrews 12, 12, for fastening the support A to the wall or other verticalplace of support. In the operation of my device havmg screwed thesupport A on the wall surface hang a broom on the hanger A by insertingthe handle between the spring guides 6, 6, and it is there held inremovable engagement with the guides. Over the hook 7, I place theeyelet or ring of a clustpan handle for hanging a dust-pan on thesupport A; in the form of hook shown in Fig. 4, the blade of the pan maybe inserted vertically in the parallel hook formations 9, 9. In thismanner a broom and dust-pan are thus removably mounted and the dust-pantherein supported vertically and conveniently in position for ready use.The broom handle can be easily removed from its position between theguides 6, 6, and the dust-pan removed from the hook 7 or supports 9, 9.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and for which Idesire Letters Patent is as follows:

A hook support comprising a sheet-metal arm having an aperture betweenits upper and lower edges, a metal strip extending through said apertureand having one of its end portions extending from the front of said armdownwardly beneath the arm and then upwardly against the back of thearm, the other portion of said strip extending upwardly along the rearof the arm, over the top of the latter and terminating in a hookarranged at the. front of said arm.

In testimony whereof I have alfixed my signature.

HENRY MERK.

